Afterlife
News Report November 23rd 2007
EARLY EDITION FOR SUBSCRIBERS
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO OUR UNITED STATES
NEWSLETTER MEMBERS
Thanksgiving is a harvest
festival celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November
in the United States, although most people also take the
following Friday off work. Many of our North American
readers will be enjoying a long weekend getting together
with family members who often travel long distances to
be together. It is a wonderful festival hopefully without
too much commercialization. Our thoughts are with you.
SHOULD I TELL FAMILY MEMBERS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE?
One problem that confronts people who have recently discovered
the existence of the Afterlife is when they try to share
it with loved ones or close friends, expecting them to
be just as excited as we are. Sadly it seems that unless
people are at a certain level of readiness all we can
do is to "sow seeds" that may or may not lead
them to ask questions when the time is right. But there
will be plenty of other people around us who are interested
to share our discoveries,
FACEBOOK DISCUSSION SITE
In the meantime you can find lots of people to talk to
about afterlife issues on Our Facebook discussion group
which now has 87 members. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6417546403
Caroline Bennet is doing a wonderful job as moderator
and there are now 31 topics on the forum boards including
What are your thoughts on the Afterlife? Mediumship development?
Have you made contact with the spirit World Yourself?
To contribute you just go to http://www.facebook.com
create an account (a quick and easy process) and start
making friends from all over the world with people who
are interested in the things on this site.
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THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS
Recently detailed investigations into the genuineness
of mediumship have been carried out by Professor Gary
Schwartz and colleagues at the University of Arizona who
conducted a number of double blind research studies with
some of the top mediums in the United States including
(in order of working with them) Laurie Campbell, John
Edward, Suzanne Northrop, George Anderson. Anne Gehmen,
George Dalzell, Allison Dubois, Catherine Yunt, Mary Ann
Morgan, Janet Mayer, Christopher Robinson, Traci Bray,
Sally Own, Mary Occhino, Debbie Martin, Doreen Molloy,
Sally Morgan, Robert Hansen and Angelina Diana. He writes:
" These mediums have been tested under experimental
conditions that rule out the use of fraud and cold reading
techniques commonly used by psychic entertainers and mental
magicians."
In January of 2007, a paper describing a
triple-blind study conducted by the VERITAS Research Program
that achieved positive results was published in the peer-reviewed
journal, EXPLORE: the Journal of Science & Healing.
2007;3(1):23-27.
View
On-line
Download
the PDF version
Details of his experiments in the Veritas
Program and other academic papers on mediumship published
in peer-reviewed journals are available on his website
http://veritas.arizona.edu/.
RICHARD MILTON ON SKEPTICS AND THE MEDIA
"Whenever a major TV network carries a programme
whose content CSICOP disapproves, the organisation alerts
members by email, encouraging them to bombard the network
and the programme's producers will vociferous complaints,
insisting that such content should not be broadcast. Not
unnaturally, some producers and network executives feel
it wiser to give in to this kind of pressure from prominent
academics and avoid such subjects in future."
Read more...
THE SENSING MURDER CONTROVERSY IN NEW ZEALAND
MICHAEL COCKS has written a very sensible analysis
of the current attacks on the integrity of
the New Zealand version of the television program
Sensing Murder using the above tactics. He writes:
" Skeptics feel safe to ignore the work and findings
of thousands of psychic researchers over the past 150
years, including that of leading philosophers, psychologists,
physicists, and mystics. They consider the research to
be a nullity because of their "knowledge" of
the rightness of Materialism. Because of their "knowledge"
they feel justified in ignoring the picture of reality
now being presented by world figures in the field of Quantum
Mechanics." To read his full analysis go to
http://thegroundoffaith.net/issues/2007-11/
COMMENTARY: THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE AFTERLIFE – THE
TRUTH! And those who are on the winning side:
Over the last eight years since I started my website,
I received thousands of emails from all over the world
about my afterlife research- from North and South America,
Europe, Africa, many countries in Asia, Australia –
and Russia. As a matter of fact my book was translated
into Russian some years ago and is being sold in Russian
bookshops. Some 99.9% of the emails support directly or
indirectly my afterlife research. Of course, I do get
a couple of emails from the skeptics- from the three kinds.
1) OPEN MINDED SKEPTICS who intially
oppose the afterlife: there are the searching open
minded skeptics – like me – who ask important
questions and investigate using scientific method –
as I do. I refer these open minded skeptics who contact
me to the relevent research and most of them, in fact, go
away and investigate, then start having their own experiences
and come to accept the evidence of the afterlife. Note very
carefully, when the open minded skeptics accept the evidence,
they are NOT into beliefs. They say, “yes, we ACCEPT
the evidence.”
2. CLOSED MINDED SKEPTICS - who oppose
the afterlife: Also, there are the closed minded
skeptics who use their closed-skepticism to promote their
own careers – many of them academics. Some people
call them ‘intellectual expedients’. They will
change their views overnight if they think that by accepting
the paranormal their career will be advanced. We see them
publishing articles on the "paranormal" - debunking
the existence of Bigfoot or claiming they can duplicate
orbs and picking on the side-show psychics. But do they
try to rebut my TWENTY TWO AREAS of objective, repeatable,
empirical evidence? NO!!!!
3. SKEPTICAL DUMMIES- hopeless cases?:
those who experience a lot of frustration and despair when
they cannot rebut the substantive hard core empirical evidence
for the afterlife – especially the hard core sensational
evidence for materializations. To offset the colossal frustration,
they ‘throw mud’ at the source of their frustration.
They try to parody websites and videos or use fifth rate
‘comical’ material. In their despair, they inevitably
join the team of failed comics. BUT no matter how hard they
try to throw mud at their source of frustration, the hard
core empirical EVIDENCE for the afterlife remains VALID,
remains INTACT and remains UNREBUTTED – no wonder
they suffer so much frustration! Some call these skeptical
dummies losers and defeatists. But consistent with the Law
of Progress, even these dummies will one day inevitably
accept there is an afterlife – even if it will take
eons of time!
‘WE LIVE FOREVER’: THE
REAL TRUTH ABOUT DEATH - DVD $19.95
 Filmed
at Transformation Conference 2007, Fayetteville, Arkansas,
this two-hour presentation by P. M. H. Atwater focuses on
the greatest mysteries of all time - death, heaven and hell,
the existence of the soul, and the power of prayer. Dr.
Atwater shares how deeply the attack on Pearl Harbor affected
her as a first grader in school, and how the specter of
death has been a part of her life ever since. Using this
and her research of near-death states as a springboard,
she discusses in-depth the existence of the soul, soul groups,
soul cycles, leaving the body after death, different energetic
layers to the afterlife, borderlands and in between spaces,
and spirit beings on the Other Side. She shares "What
Death Is" and "What It Feels Like To Die"
(summarizes from comments of over 3,000 near-death experiencers
during her research of the near-death phenomenon). Reference
her book: "We Live Forever," A.R.E. Press, Virginia
Beach, VA, 2004 Order the book directly from the author
http://cinemind.com/store/page5.html
GROUND OF FAITH: The excellent November
2007 issue of The Ground of Faith can now be read: just
click
http://thegroundoffaith.net/issues/2007-11/(reply SUBSCRIBE
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"Sensing Murder - the SKEPTICS exposed"
Editorial: I preach a sermon to myself
Articles: “SENSING MURDER” - Michael Cocks “Houdini
knocks their socks off”
Different Kinds of Fundamentalism
The Most Holy Family Monastery: "The Heresies of Benedict
XVI"
Rustum Roy: Scientific Fundamentalism the Most Dangerous
Video: multiple videos on science and religion THE SCIENCE
OF ETERNITY Interview with Deepak Chopra: Afterlife ARTICLES
and COMMENTS from READERS: Dr Elizabeth Keane (Brisbane
Austr.) My experience with the pendulum Rev. Ian Crumpton
(Presby. NZ).
VIDEO- Becoming John
Edward
 This
week's video features a look into the early life of John
Edward and Interviews with his family members about what
the medium was like as a child and how he developed his
talents.
Becoming John Edward Part
1.
Becoming John Edward Part
2.
Becoming John Edward Part
3.
WANTED: TRANSLATORS: Chinese, French, German
and other languages … to translate some of the chapters
in my BOOK – top right.
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